Our digital paths are crossing, but are not always the same. It is interesting to see how different people use digital tools for interaction, teaching, and learning differently, what paths they prefer to take, to what extent they optimise, replicate on-site events, introduce something new to digital routines, and learn from each other, thinking how […]

All GenAI are AI, but not all AI are GenAI. Why would you want AI in your classroom? In the article (Ouyang, F. & Jiao, P. (2021). Artificial intelligence in education: The three paradigms. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2, 1-6.) authors propose 3 ways of interaction between learner and AI: AI-directed when AI represent knowledge […]

In this third reflection I have an extra paragraph I decided to write. It is partially because I am co-hosting the theme 3 and therefore I think about the structure of the whole theme, and where we as a team are at every moment of our discussion. Also, the topic of learning in communities is […]

OER is a great resource from the students’ perspective. However, it often requires extra working hours (sometimes unpaid) and can be challenging to manage from the teachers’ point of view. From the university’s perspective, OER developed by their educators may serve as part of a marketing strategy or help expand awareness of in-house practices. They […]

Winter season is approaching us in Helsinki with its full speed. It is a great time to warm up your house with the candle light and make your days more bright from within. For doing so, I am starting the challenge campaign of my own and invite you all to share it with me. You […]

That time the recipe will be super easy, fast to make, tasty and yet, relatively a healthy one. It’s a cake that will always remind me of Finland and the Finnish summer, the time when you can enjoy one of the best Scandinavian treats, – forest and garden berries.   I took it easy and […]

I’m quite excited to present you this hidden Finnish treasure, the cake that you won’t be able to taste unless you are traveling or living in Finland or Sweden in mid of January – beginning of February. And even then you might miss it on the cafe shelf, with it fancy-classy yet modest shape and […]

24.9.2024 With this post, I start a series of reflection blog posts for the class I am taking this fall: Open Networked Learning https://www.opennetworkedlearning.se/ . I am taking the course as I would like to get fresh insights into the online learning cultures away from my usual circles and compare it with my own settled […]